police scientifique

/\po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\/ noun

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19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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police scientifique is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ensemble des services et activités policières liés à la recherche et l'identification des auteurs d'infractions, par des moyens scientifiques. Pronounced \po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\.

Key facts for police scientifique
PropertyValue
Headwordpolice scientifique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

police scientifique is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for police scientifique is 19 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Ensemble des services et activités policières liés à la recherche et l'identification des auteurs d'infractions, par des moyens scientifiques.".

No misspelling variants are generated for police scientifique in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is police scientifique, spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -S-C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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    Ensemble des services et activités policières liés à la recherche et l'identification des auteurs d'infractions, par des moyens scientifiques.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "police scientifique"?
"police scientifique" is spelled P-O-L-I-C-E- -S-C-I-E-N-T-I-F-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\.
What does "police scientifique" mean?
As a noun, "police scientifique" means: Ensemble des services et activités policières liés à la recherche et l'identification des auteurs d'infractions, par des moyens scientifiques.
How do you pronounce "police scientifique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "police scientifique" is \po.lis sjɑ̃.ti.fik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "police scientifique" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.